Lame, blurry and pointless

Rating: 4/10 (7 July 2003)

Being a fan of both Boyle and Garland, I thought this was going to be a really intense, inventive and fast-paced movie. I was disappointed to discover it's mostly a collection of blurry, 70's style filmmaking revolving around some dull acting and a script that starts out good and ends up absolutely dying, no pun intended. Unfortunately Boyle should have realized that if you're going to make a character driven (?) zombie movie you need some compelling characters. It's the rare film that actually could have really benefited from some star power - had Boyle alum Ewan McGregor been cast as the lead it would have been infinitely more interesting. Sure, the zombies were scary and there were a couple of good moments, but by the time the film ended I was so uninvested in the story I couldn't have cared less.